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Mean Season at the All-Star Break

Serendipity: The act of finding something propitious completely by accident while on some other mission or quest – it happens! Also sh*t happens. Most of the time sh*t happens, in fact. We all need a little serendipity in our lives, but it’s way too rare. Well when it was so sorely needed, I made a serendipitous find this past weekend! Wow! I needed that! I followed a link on Facebook or Twitter about Bill Clinton, and the story was posted at a newsfeed site I have never seen before which calls itself The Love Network. I thought that was rather sweet and appropriate. Bill is lovable. But then I noticed something else. Up in the taskbar there was one of those “related stories” type menus. If you like this you might also like: Hillary Clinton. Actually, I might also LOVE Hillary Clinton, so I followed that link, and chose to subscribe to the RSS feeds from what is known as Hillary Clinton| The Love Network. As I have said here before, I do not require huge reasons to love-slam Hillary Clinton, but I was encouraged to find a newsfeed that loves her too, since so many news orgs seem intent on continuing to use her as a fastball, a change-up, a screwball, and a spitball (YUCK!) against the angry bats of any team that wants to send her out of the park.

The marginalization meme we have discussed for several weeks now, continues. In fact it worsens while we watch. I know Tina Brown did not REALLY expect us to believe she was on Hillary’s side advocating for Hillary to be freed of her burqa when she wrote this, so viral on the internet the past two days: Obama’s Other Wife. Some of the Homegirls would be gratified if Hillary removed some article of clothing (a jacket would do – wear that pretty white eyelet blouse we like), but a burqa is not an article any of us ever wanted to imagine ON Hillary to begin with.

One thing I found interesting about this article: In contrast with earlier “Hillary in the Shadows” articles, Brown agrees that Richard Holbrooke is a Hillary-hire. The meme we argued with on June 25 , The Sport of the Mean Season, was that Obama hired the super-envoys, Holbrooke included. Hmmmm….maybe Tina was here and has corrected the official story based on the truth as stated here. Or maybe they just can’t get their stories straight because they are, well… STORIES!

I will give Tina a h/t for this:

On her State Department plane, Hillary is always eager to throw off her well-groomed public look and sit up front with no makeup, wearing sweats and her bookworm glasses, as she crunches her way through a big fat file of foreign-policy memos.

Once again I am validated! I have been saying that since she took the oath. Hillary confirmed it in an interview at her 100th day in office, and Tina, who clearly has been aboard HillForce One (whether or not she DESERVES TO HAVE BEEN) re-confirms that Hillary is eating the wallpaper off the walls at Foggy Bottom as well as volumes in flight. It is not for no reason. If you know anything about Hillary, you have to know THAT. (Try not to make her look TOO attractive while she does this, though, Tina, y’know? I suppose you blog in your Chanel suit.)

Well Tina is not the only one taking continued pot shots at our Chief Homegirl. The NYT seems never to miss a chance, so true to form, on Sunday, in an article about Howard Wolfson (now Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Minister of Propoganda) we found these unfortunate remarks which must be addressed:

Still, there is an alternate view: that Mr. Wolfson, reeling from Mrs. Clinton’s demoralizing loss, and an object of scorn among some Obama loyalists for the attacks he waged long after it became clear that she had no chance of winning, saw in Mr. Bloomberg an easy, high-profile victory.

“I am not interested in losing,” he said.

Mrs. Clinton’s drawn-out defeat in last year’s presidential primaries was a defining moment in the long journey that took Mr. Wolfson from the relative obscurity of local Democratic politics to the pinnacle of national campaigns and, now, to his new and unexpected perch.

Reminder: The long story that began on May 31, 2008 with the Rules and Bylaws Committee and ended with the most outrageous roll-call vote since the convention began televising roll-call votes, the true story of Denver has yet to be told! Fact: Hillary won the largest popular vote IN HISTORY in the primaries. She did not lose! Calling it a loss does not make it so.

Finally, and I really wish I did not feel compelled to include this, but in fairness, I must. First let me say that readers do appreciate the effort of Preeti Aroon who took this blog over when no one would, and clearly she has little time to spend on this, but still, the Foreign Policy Magazine, Madam Secretary blog, purported to be – in fact publicized as – a blog for Hillary fans who want to know what she is up to, published this unfortunate post: Clinton Getting Her Second Wind.

My comment is posted there. I’ll put it here too. If you want to read the lies, you can go to the link.

Second wind, huh? I hope you never have broken any bones or required any surgery, and I hope you never will, but if you have you probably know that people who have had serious surgery under general anesthesia generally are out on disability for two weeks MINIMUM! Secretary Clinton was not out of work two DAYS following such surgery. She worked from home THE WEEKEND OF THE SURGERY and was at the White House the following Monday.

As it happens, her particular injury and surgery require intense physical therapy which prevented her from traveling with Obama to Russia, Italy, Greece, and Ghana on this latest trip. We are glad to see that she is well enough to travel at the end of this week, but the fact that she missed one trip is hardly a reason for this “toiling in the shadows” meme that keeps bobbing up. She has been working steadily since the injury and surgery. That the media does not cover her work does cause one to ponder. Here are a few things we need to remember:
1. Hillary does not need a “limelight” on her (or cameras rolling) in order to do her job.
2. To say

Obama has been able to travel abroad, and when he does, people go wild with Obamamania. Obama and his identity have been riveting symbols overseas

is patently false. Students on the streets of Moscow could not have cared less, and some resented having their classes cancelled due to his visit. There were no wild cheering crowds in Mother Russia. (Hillary will go there later this year – the contrast is sure to be interesting).
3. Prior to this one missed trip, Hillary has traveled tirelessly and indeed in partial shadow. Big trips have received perfunctory mention by the media, and others received no media attention (OAS Conference in Central America prior to meeting up with Obama in Egypt, visit to Canada to conclude a year of Canadian celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty – btw – Americans didn’t even KNOW there was an anniversary – why?).
4. This

” Clinton “hasn’t been the face of America abroad,” said Ben Smith

is pure tripe! Yes, she is very much the face of America abroad. The WORLD knows it even if America does not.
If people like Ben Smith and Wendy Chamberlin are going to be quoted here, how about a little editorial balance from Madam Secretary/FP?

So here we are at the seventh inning stretch (for real! really!) in the All-Star Game, and after the break, the Mean Season continues.

Hillary, we’ve got your back!

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Damn straight. We’ve got her back. Ugh, what is this shit they’re going on about? Are they afraid of her power? Don’t they know that it’s gonna take more than propaganda to bring her down? Maybe that’s what they’re afraid of. Long after O’s approval rating is in the gutter, hers will remain commendable. She’s just that amazing.

I’m glad Hillary is scheduled to give her major speech tomorrow. She does best when she speaks for herself and for what she believes in. It’s the most effective antidote to the media’s idiocy. And I hear she is now sling free!

Her speech tomorrow will be very good from what I have been reading. She consulted everyone from repubs/conservatives,neocons, and liberals. Some names are kissenger,schultz,zebrenski(sp?),podesta,clinton people and bush people.

Hillary in sweats sounds so cute. If a women can put on sweats,a t-shirt, and maybe a hat with no make-up and be called beautiful, that is real beauty. We all know that hillary is a real beauty and attractive in sweats as well as whatever she wears. You were right hillary loves learning about everything.

At least today on hardball matthews admitted he had a sense of humor of a high school boy.

Hillary, bill, and all of us learned who really has their back and best interest at heart and not just using them like wolffie,solis, and others.

“She is seen as glamorous and in many countries as a valuable symbol of the United States, but it is not at all clear that she has an in-depth influence on foreign policy.”

“She needs to decide if she wants to be the administration’s mascot or have an impact on actual policy.”

The Admin’s MASCOT?!! That just makes me want to walk in shooting, like Bette Davis in “The Letter”.

Still4Hill, you have done a standup job of confronting the nonstop bullshit thrown at Hillary by the MSM. Your efforts do not go unnoticed by the Homegirl Security readers, or by the powers-that-be at State, I am sure. Keep up the good work. And yes — Hillary we HAVE YOUR BACK!

I sort of want to add Doris Day as Calamity Jane for the sake of pretty and glamorous “little blonde things” (and, for that matter, brunettes, and redheads – well – you’d have to be nuts to fool around with a redhead this way) everywhere who can’t possibly have a serious mission other than looking cute.

(For the record: Doris Day’s rescue organization stepped in where the federal government failed after Katrina and rescued hundreds of pets whose owners would never have evacuated without her services.)

So now hear this all and sundry:
HILLARY CLINTON IS NO MASCOT! WHAT AN IDEA!!

Sheuty on oh my valve wrote hillary is a traitor and not doing anything. He and bitterpoliticz quote WND whose founder spent millions trying to bring and put the clintons in jail and hired dick morris who hates hillary. Give me a break.

I am also pissed off at the words used to descibe how she is supposed to be pushed aside like muzzle and put on a leash. How can she have no influence,but be blamed if things go bad.

I know we all dislike/hate obama but please better sources than clinton and hillary haters.

Yeah, I’m beginning to rethink all this “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” stuff. That might have been true during the election, when PUMAs were doing everything humanly possible (including forging alliances with right-wingers and idiots) to make sure 0bummer didn’t win so we could get Hillary in 2012. But now? It’s more like we’re fighting two major “fronts”, a la WW2. On one front, we have Bozo, his bots, and the enabling left-wing media f’loons who want to marginalize Hillary. On the other front, there are the Repubs and Clinton haters who’ve been trying to bring Hillary down for years.

Jen said:
“On one front, we have Bozo, his bots, and the enabling left-wing media f’loons who want to marginalize Hillary. On the other front, there are the Repubs and Clinton haters who’ve been trying to bring Hillary down for years.”

Honestly, I am not sure the “left-wing media” is behind it. I kind of wonder if the corporate MSM has been pretending to be pro-Hillary at times (ie. Fox during the primaries) but only to divide and conquer the dems to pave the way for the GOP. But I honestly don’t know. Maybe it’s some third group we’ve underestimated- the peeps Still4Hill has been warning us about. They seem to be a strange mixture of conservatives, progressives and independents and I don’t know what else.

But then again, I have to admit my bias- I am a left-winger 🙂 But don’t get me wrong, if I found even the slightest bit of hard-core evidence to suggest some progressives were behind this fictitious story line, I’d be first in line to condemn it.

As much as the liberal media says they want the clintons gone,they really don’t because they answer questions,funny,smart,love proving their points and just fun people. Let’s face it obama is really not that entertaining without the clintons. Michelle and obama vs. Hillary and Bill who would you rather cover?

As it has been said and written that romney,buttercup,newt can beat obama, we all know that if the clintons want to beat obama, the clintons will beat obama in an election as hillary has proven. But if they the clintons win the moderate dems stay in control and put the repubs out of business. Repubs have never beaten the clintons as bill bennett has said before.

That Shtuey is a major pain in the butt! And while we’re here – it occurs to me that I still do not understand or know why Hillary inspires so much hatred in some people when I see her a completely different way. Maybe I need to blog about that one day because this is not koolaid over here. She WON me over, and she did it by working hard. Credit where creidt is due – and loyalty.

I don’t know who Ben Smith is getting his info. from, but I’d love to find out.

Now that Hillary has *personally* addressed this nonsense, it would be nice if the media would respectfully STFU. Meh!

I left a comment over at Tina Brown’s Daily Beast article and if you haven’t gone over there and thrown your two cents in, please do- the fact is, authors of articles follow the comment section closely.

I emailed Margaret Carleson today- she has the Bloomberg article that notes, rightly I think, how Hillary and Judge Sotomayor are the recipients of sexist double standards but then unfortunately she then goes on to repeat the media fiction that Hillary has been sidelined as SOS. Overall, I like Carleson- I enjoy her commentary, particularly when she’s on an all-male panel on CNN or something (which she really no longer does now that they no longer have that weekend news round-up show, the name of which I forget at the moment).

We have to take the battle to enemy I am afraid, rather than wait for them to come to us.

jillforhill said:”Let’s face it obama is really not that entertaining without the clintons. Michelle and obama vs. Hillary and Bill who would you rather cover?”

ROTFL!!! The Obamas are a horror show. Both of them bark at people and don’t smile much. Hillary and Bill are so attractive. They always have been. As they age, the enter new phases of being adorable. Right now they are both very hot and sexy. Did you see them on The Intrepid that night? WOW!

[…] Although she claims to have been a Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, in the past year we have seen a few articles and comments from Tina Brown that ring odd coming from a self-proclaimed admirer. In late spring of last year, ffor example she published her much circulated article Obama’s Other Wife. in which she suggested that Obama was keeping Hillary in the shadows, eclipsing her, as it were, and that for sundry reasons that amounted to left-handed compliments to our Homegirl, he should let her take off her burqa. A link to The Daily Beast article by Brown appears in this post: Mean Season at the All-Star Break. […]

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